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MOMENT OF MADNESS STIRS US TO FEAR WORST
Posted: 6:41 pmAugust 9, 2008
BEIJING - The disquieting news snaked through the American sectors of these Olympic Games quickly. The first reflex, of course, is to fear the worst. […]
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This just in. Gov. Gray Davis failed to report a $200,000 contribution he made to a campaign committee and didn’t properly list $187,381.55 that he paid to campaign lawyers.
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How do you say, “Being left to flap in the wind like an old, soiled, forgotten dishrag” in Urdu or Punjabi or Sindhi or Pashtu or any of the other languages that, like English, are commonly spoken in Pakistan?
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Un nuevo esfuerzo para repatriar a inmigrantes ilegales en este paÃs llega por cortesÃa de la agencia de control de inmigración de Estados Unidos que, esta semana, empezó a ofrecer a más de 540.000 personas indocumentadas que han desobedecido una orden de deportación, la opción de poner sus asuntos en orden y presentarse ante una […]
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U.S. and Iraqi negotiators are days away from agreeing on an “aspirational” date for withdrawing American combat troops from Iraq. Barack Obama and John McCain will find language in the accord to allow each to take credit on the campaign trail for shaping that outcome.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 5 — Mourners braved heavy rain Tuesday to file past the body of former Soviet dissident and Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, which lay in an open coffin at the Russian Academy of Sciences, flanked by an honor guard of four Russian soldiers.
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BEIJING, Aug. 9 — They did it.
After seven years of meticulous preparation, the Chinese opened the 2008 Summer Olympics, celebrating 5,000 years of history and exulting in their newly recovered status as a world power. They did it with a smoothly choreographed extravaganza of fireworks and pageantry, performed before 91,000 carefully screened spectators and a […]
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ALONG THE SAN MIGUEL RIVER, Ecuador — The captain held a finger to his lips, and his soldiers crouched on either the side of the jungle path. He saw the pair of footprints pressed into the mud behind a tree, which he recognized as marks from the rubber boots preferred by the Colombian guerrillas he […]
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NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania, Aug. 7 — Army commanders ousted Mauritania’s first freely elected president in two decades Wednesday after a bitter political fight over his overtures to Islamist radicals and ties to allies of a reviled former dictator.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 8 — Anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will end all his movement’s attacks on U.S. troops if the United States agrees to a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, his chief spokesman said Friday.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 8 — Russia launched airstrikes Friday deep inside Georgia and mobilized columns of tanks after Georgian forces embarked on a major offensive to reassert control over South Ossetia, a separatist province. Political leaders on both sides said that war had begun. The United States, an ally of Georgia, and other governments appealed for […]
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TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia’s parliament approved a state of war across the ex-Soviet country on Saturday following days of fighting against separatists in its South Ossetia region and their Russian allies.
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GORI, Georgia (Reuters) - Russia’s military said on Saturday it was sending reinforcements into South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia where Russian forces are supporting separatists under assault from Georgian troops.
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Russia says it is sending extra troops to the Georgian separatist region of South Ossetia after another night of fierce fighting with Georgian forces.
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Putin warned in the early stages of the conflict that the Georgian attack would draw retaliation and the Defense Ministry pledged to protect South Ossetians, most of whom have Russian citizenship.
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John Edwards, the Democrats’ 2004 vice-presidential candidate and a potential Cabinet member for Barack Obama, last night admitted that he had consistently lied about having an affair.
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KATE and Gerry McCann’s private detectives were yesterday pursuing newly revealed leads pointing to a possible Belgian link to their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance.
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DZHAVA, Georgia (Aug. — Russia dispatched an armored column into the breakaway enclave of South Ossetia on Friday after Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, launched a surprise offensive to crush separatists. Witnesses said hundreds of civilians were killed.
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Families are having to find an extra £640 a year to cope with the credit crunch, exclusive research reveals.
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The Ecstasy seizure - the world’s largest - also led to the cracking of a A$9 million money laundering operation.
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